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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kudos to the Whitman Principal, Teachers and Staff for having the highest SAT score average within MCPS!  Same goes to Churchill, Poolesville and Wootton who all averaged over 1200!  The next highest HS average wasn't even close - 100 points lower on average.

#	R	M	T
1 Walt Whitman HS	344	652	648	1301
2 Winston Churchill HS	426	645	647	1292
3 Poolesville HS	303	649	642	1291
4 Thomas S. Wootton HS	405	637	647	1284

College Readiness Data (ZIP 31KB) 
https://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/DataDownloads/FileDownload/520

Great job![/quote]

I'd like to see it broken down by either SES or racial cohort again like they did a few years ago. I think that gives us a much better idea of the schools quality. This just tells us which schools have the lowest FARMs rate.[/quote]

They did this a few years ago, but at least for my kid's cohort, Blair did a little better than any W.  They really need to provide more nuanced and granular data to make this meaningful.[/quote]

They pick a few of the best magnet kids and they only did slightly better. Of course they did they are bussed to a needy school specifically for their academic ability to prop it up. The part you are glossing over is 99% of the school isn’t that cohort and even with them in the pool, the school’s scores are near the bottom of the county. Whitman has the best kids pulled out (and sent to Blair) and still has the best entire school avg out of the system. No slicing the demographics into tiny slivers needed to fit a narrative. [/quote]

Blair is about 20% magnet (SMCS and CAP), not 1% magent.

A lot of the best kids in western MoCo choose to stay at home school, or are not chosen for Blair due to the arbitratiness of which borderline kids make the cut. But they are spread out across the other schools.

Blair has only about 2x as many top tier academic achieving a students vs other western schools, despite pulling top tier kids from every school. [/quote]

Jealous much?[/quote]

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